let me tell you and let me go on

Two novels from the perspective of Hamlet’s Ophelia—the first set before the events of the play, the second after—written entirely by remixing and repurposing the character’s dialogue from Shakespeare’s original text. “So: now I come to speak.” With this line, Shakespeare’s Ophelia starts telling her story. In let me tell you , this newly revealed woman uses exactly the same words Shakespeare gave her in Hamlet , shifted as in a kaleidoscope to create a very different voice: her own. We hear her